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Originally Posted by corpus vile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Price_(murderer)
I'd be very interested in you and Chez's opinion on Craig Price, a serial killer who was tried as a juvenile, so could be only given six years, but was then given additional sentences for crimes committed behind bars. As a result he's been incarcerated since he was 15, for the past 35 years and it doesn't look like he's getting out anytime soon either, having landed another 25 year sentence in 2019.
Is it justified keeping someone incarcerated, since they were a kid? Yet he committed four (extremely brutal) murders, some of his victims being children, and numerous offences as an adult in prison. One of these crimes was criminal contempt of court for refusing psychiatric treatment which apparently was a condition of his original sentence. He was given 25 years for this offence which is pretty disproportionate and clearly designed to keep him in longer over the original murders, imo. Had he not have been given such a severe sentence for contempt of court, would he have committed more crimes behind bars? Do some of his crimes post incarceration have a sense of context, such as survival, prison society etc?
Basically, is this ethical? Or should society's safety come first?
This is what I mean when I say there's no easy answers here.
I read your Wikipedia link and am not sure how you arrived at "One of these crimes was criminal contempt of court for refusing psychiatric treatment which apparently was a condition of his original sentence. He was given 25 years for this offence"
Maybe I'm not reading well today????
Anyway, that dude should be in prison forever.
"Price committed his first murder at the age of 13 in Warwick, Rhode Island on the night of July 27, 1987,[6] Price broke into a home that was only two houses away from his own, [3] took a knife from the kitchen, and stabbed 27-year-old Rebecca Spencer 58 times, killing her.[3]
A little over two years later, Price was a 15-year-old freshman in high school when he murdered three other neighbors on September 1, 1989. Price, high on marijuana and LSD,[7] stabbed 39-year-old Joan Heaton 57 times, her 10-year-old daughter Jennifer, who witnessed Price stabbing her mother to death in the kitchen, 62 times, and crushed the skull of Heaton's 7-year-old daughter Melissa who also witnessed Price stabbing her mother and sister, and inflicted 30 stab wounds. The stabbings were so brutal that the handles broke off the knives he used, with the blades staying inside the bodies of the victims, including a knife blade lodged inside of the neck of the 10 year old girl, Jennifer.[6]"
Last edited by natediggity; 12-30-2023 at 10:23 AM.
Reason: there is a very easy answer to this one